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This is the second volume on the mechanisms of oral communication
in ancient Greece, focused on epic poetry, a genre with deep roots
in orality. Considering the critical debate about orality and its
influence on the composition, diffusion and transmission of the
archaic epic poems, the survey provides a reconsideration and a
reassessment of the traces of orality in the archaic epic poetry,
following their adaptation in the synchronic and diachronic changes
of the communicative system. Combining the methods of cognitive
science, and the historical and literary analysis of the texts, the
research explores the complexity of the literary message of the
Greek epic poetry, highlighting its position in a system of oral
communication. The consideration of structural and formal aspects,
i.e. the traces of orality in the narrative architecture, in the
epic diction, in the meter and the formulaic system, as well as the
vestiges of the mixture of orality and writing, allows to
reconstruct a dynamic frame of communicative modalities which
influenced and enriched the archaic epic poetry, providing it with
expressive potentialities destined to a longlasting permanence in
the history of the genre.
The volume deals with the mechanisms of the oral communication in
the ancient Greek culture. Considering the critical debate about
orality, the analysis of the communicative system in a
predominantly oral-aural ancient society implies a reassessment and
a deep reconsideration of the traces which orality embedded in the
texts transmitted to us. In particular, the focus is on the
'cultural message', a set of information which is processed and
transmitted vertically as well as horizontally by a living being,
so to be differently from a genetically encoded information, a
culturally defined process. The survey intertwines different
approaches: the methodologies of cognitivism, biology, ethology, to
analyze the embrional processes of the cultural messages, and the
tools of historical and literary analysis, to highlight the
development of the cultural messages in the traditional knowledge,
their codification, transmission, and evolutions in the dialectics
between orality and writing. The reconstructed pattern of the
mechanisms of cultural messages in a prevailing oral-aural system
cast a light on a shadowy aspect of a sophisticated communication
system that has long influenced European culture.
The book is the third and concluding part of the investigation on
Submerged literature in ancient Greece and beyond. The book expands
the inquiry to a comparative perspective, in order to test the
validity and usefulness of the hermeneutical approach in other
fields and cultures. The comparative case studies deal with gnostic
text, Qumran texts, the Hebrew Bible, Early Christianity, Cuneiform
Texts, Arabic-Islamic literature, ancient Rome, Medieval China, and
contemporary southern Italy. The volume tackles themes and
questions relating to author and authorship, cultural translation
and transmission, the interaction between orality and literacy,
myth and folktale. A particular emphasis is given to
anthropological themes and methods. In this vein, the book further
explores dynamics of emergence and submersion in ancient Greece,
including cultural trends promoted respectively by Sparta and
Athens. The volume provides the reader with a wide range of tools
and methodological suggestions to reconstruct literary phenomena
and cultural processes in a given historical epoch and context, as
well as offering new insights for both classical and comparative
studies.
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